The National Ballet of China has been a barometer to the changing fortunes of its country: it imported Soviet ideas before forging its own patriotic style, weathered the Cultural Revolution and adapted to the changing ideologies of state control and the free market – and is now a growing presence on the world stage.
We've got some Southern California-style weather today.
After five days, as we neared the more touristy west of range and the spectacular Toubkal national park, home to the highest mountain in the Atlas at 4,167 metres, the final stage even threw in some British-style weather.
It is a basic confusion of cause and effect, an apparently genuine conviction that what has been holding England back all these years is the failure to build its own luxury hotel, a lack of fancy exercise bikes and above all the absence of an altitude chamber capable of mimicking the two-yearly surprise – the outrage – of foreign-style weather.
A swath of coast from Berck in the Pas-de-Calais to Dunkerque and into Belgium has more than 70 sites attracting athletes to train in British-style weather, but in cheaper, quieter conditions and state-of-the-art arenas, often replicas of the Games sites.
Among cabinet members, the favourite destination this year is Brittany – English-style weather, sweaters, cold swims, family walks along the beach … Maybe a short interview will be granted to the local paper, stressing the need to get fit for the difficult times ahead, as long as forbidden words such as "austerity" or "rigour" are not mentioned.
The state will get another taste of Florida-style weather over the next few days as another humid, wet storm system moves through.
As dozens of state lawmakers consider legislation to improve awareness and treatment of concussions in youth sports, the movement is resembling a music style or weather pattern: what started in the Pacific Northwest is wafting across the United States.
Over 18 tracks and 70 minutes, the four-piece touch upon modern jazz, polyrhythmic time structures, labyrinthine explorations of 1970s funk, scat-singing, samba, West African soul, pastoral prog rock in the style of Weather Report and Gentle Giant, sprawling electric fusion and elemental rhythms.
Your hair is a good place to start, since it's likely to have taken a pasting from extra styling, cold weather and central heating lately.
Changes in ocean temperature thousands of miles away have delivered Arizona-style summer weather to Southern California, driving up humidity and causing sporadic destruction.
